{"id":21594,"date":"2015-03-01T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=21594"},"modified":"2015-03-01T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:58:03","slug":"creative-unblock-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/creative-unblock-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#creative UNblock no.3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh,\u00a0hello\u00a0#creativeUNblock project no.3! {If you missed the first two\u00a0projects, or have no idea what I\u2019m talking about, you can catch up right\u00a0here.<\/a>}<\/em> Ok, so the next\u00a0unblocking project from\u00a0Creative Block<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0I have to admit, I tried this one before the book even hit shelves… and\u00a0I’m gonna to do it again\u00a0because it’s just that good!\u00a0This project\u00a0is given to us\u00a0by Chicago based artist\/illustrator Kate Pugsley<\/a>. Ready?<\/p>\n

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“When I’m in a creative rut, this simple activity always helps me to get excited. Start with a stack of white or off-white papers. Sometimes I use scraps or sometimes I take large pieces of drawing paper and cut them into pieces around 8×10 inches. Then get out your watercolors, acrylics or other paint and mix up some of your favorite colors. Paint the surface of the papers. Sometimes just seeing all the lovely colors together on the papers inspires me. Once the painted papers have dried, get some scissors or an x-acto knife and cut out some shapes. They can be totally arbitrary, or they can be recognizable as objects, animals, faces, etc. Open your sketchbook or get a blank sheet of paper and start arranging shapes. Just play with the shapes and colors, layering until you see interesting combinations. You can start gluing them down in your paper or book, painting on top of them, or just save the pieces you like. I keep envelopes around full of colored pieces for loosening up when I am stuck. Working with these painted shapes helps me see things that I may not see just drawing or painting directly because my mind wanders and there are always a lot of surprises.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Love! Now, If you get hung up on what recognizable shapes to cut out (I did!)<\/em> just start chopping! Triangles, squares, bits ‘n pieces, whatever. I can’t wait to see the colors you choose, the shapes you make, and the compositions you come up with…\u00a0and if you’d like to, please post your work on twitter and instagram with #creativeUNblock. Let loose, have fun, and I’ll see you out there!<\/p>\n

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Oh,\u00a0hello\u00a0#creativeUNblock project no.3! {If you missed the first two\u00a0projects, or have no idea what I\u2019m talking about, you can catch up right\u00a0here.} Ok, so the next\u00a0unblocking project from\u00a0Creative Block\u00a0:\u00a0I have to admit, I tried this one before the book even hit shelves… and\u00a0I’m gonna to do it again\u00a0because it’s just that good!\u00a0This project\u00a0is given to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,763,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21638,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}